[Coral-List] SCTLD cause

[William Precht]

The five co-editors of the Special Research Topic in Frontiers in Marine
Science are planning to do exactly that. We still have a few manuscripts in
the queue and are expecting a few more.  I anticipate when we hit 40
accepted manuscripts this review will be our priority.

We also have a large team of authors that are sharing their data from
throughout Florida, the Bahamas, and the Caribbean in a large regional
analysis. This should be published sometime in the fall.

Bill


On Tue, Aug 2, 2022 at 9:56 AM Melbourne Briscoe <mel at briscoe.com> wrote:

> "  There are more than 85 peer-reviewed manuscripts published so far and
> numerous white papers and government reports that are also available."
>
> Perhaps it is time for someone to prepare a meta-analysis/review; what do
> all those papers and reports say, and are there any conclusions?
>
> On Tue, Aug 2, 2022 at 7:37 AM William Precht via Coral-List <
> coral-list at coral.aoml.noaa.gov> wrote:
>
>> Once again, I strongly encourage those interested in SCTLD to read the
>> vast
>> peer-reviewed literature published to date on this topic.  There are more
>> than 85 peer-reviewed manuscripts published so far and numerous white
>> papers and government reports that are also available.
>>
>> The journal Frontiers in Marine Science has already published 34
>> manuscripts on this topic alone and there are more in the queue currently
>> undergoing review.
>>
>> Each day we learn more and more about this horrific disease but there is
>> much we still do not understand. Every piece of the puzzle we put together
>> - the closer we get to solving the mystery.  We therefore, strongly
>> encourage anyone doing research on this topic or monitoring reefs impacted
>> by SCTLD to submit your manuscript to FMS.
>>
>>
>> https://www.frontiersin.org/research-topics/16501/stony-coral-tissue-loss-disease-in-the-caribbean
>>
>> If you have any questions you can contact either myself or my co-editors.
>> Thanks!
>>
>> Bill
>>
>> On Mon, Aug 1, 2022 at 7:39 AM Paul Muir via Coral-List <
>> coral-list at coral.aoml.noaa.gov> wrote:
>>
>> > Wow, so no Koch's postulates for this disease (ie ability to produce
>> > disease symptoms in susceptible individuals following a small
>> > inoculation with a purified disease agent? This is a pretty basic
>> > requirement in pathology and pointless speculating on causes without
>> this?
>> > Ideally the disease agent is isolated and cultured to make the inoculum,
>> > although this is occasionally not possible if the pathogen is tricky to
>> > culture or loses its pathogenicity during culture. Even producing
>> symptoms
>> > using a 0.22um filtered crude tissue extract would be informative (ie
>> viral
>> > vs bacterial agent). Curious why this hasn't been done?
>> > Ex marine microbiologist/pathologist talking- although very ex!
>> >
>> > PAUL
>> >
>> >
>> > On Mon, 1 Aug 2022 at 08:28, Kaufman, Leslie S via Coral-List <
>> > coral-list at coral.aoml.noaa.gov> wrote:
>> >
>> > > Remember folks- it is at least plausible that SCTLD is not a single
>> > > pathogen (though several may be involved as triggers), but rather a
>> > > dysbiosis, or microbiome dysfunction.  Essentially, a cnidarian UTI.
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William F. Precht

 “You never know how strong you are until being strong is the only choice
you have”

Bob Marley


"Courage is not having the strength to go on; it is going on when you don't
have the strength."

Theodore Roosevelt


"Courage is the foundation of integrity"

Mark Twain